Brandon Mull: Try

“What'll you do if you can't find a way to cure him?" Seth asked.
Dale paused. "I'll never know that day has come, because I'll never stop trying.”

“I will not know that day has come because I will not stop trying.”

“Want a reliable road to emotional and spiritual suicide? Spend your life trying to fit in.”

“… your mind was seizing on something to try to make sense of the emotion… Can you see the power emotion has to distort our outlook? Makes you wonder, did you have a bad day, or did you make it a bad day?”

“Try as we might to postpone them, days of reckoning inevitably arrive.”

“Not kill us," Pigeon corrected. "She was mainly just trying to turn us into mindless slaves.”